One Room School House with Students and Teachers, 19th C. Outdoor Tintype 1930s signs making the hand of its

making the hand of its maker feel all the more present

explained to both me and the dealer I purchased it from that it is an ice chipper

poignantly right for a newspaper seller's apron (from the days when the paper was the thing) bearing such an iconic feeling phrase

what looks to be a little upside-down heart in pencil

A few scuffs and scrapes here and there

One Room School House with Students and Teachers, 19th C. Outdoor Tintype 1930s signs making the hand of itsI believe this tintype dates to the 1870s or so, based especially on the clothing of the adults and, as far as I've been able to determine in researching, it is a fairly rare one; I've turned up a good number of school photos taken outside one room school houses produced as cabinet cards paper printed photos, but tintype examples seem very few and far between. Quite a wonderful array of faces and postures and attitudes I think, with what seems to be a